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Charlton Aria Acquisition Corporation CHAR
$10.97 +0.00% Close, Oct 2, 2026 · NASDAQ · Market cap $117.1M
Expensive vs sectorLow risk
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Three things to know
- Diluted EPS over the last four quarters was $0.25, up 52.8% year over year.
- The stock is in an uptrend: above its 200-day average for 264 trading days, with the 50-day average above the 200-day.
- Over the past year the stock returned +6.1%, behind the S&P 500 by 9.0 percentage points.
PromtFinance scores
Each score is a percentile within the Financial Services sector (0–100). Under each score: how the stock ranks in its sector on every component. As of Oct 5, 2026.
How fast revenue, earnings and cash flow are growing.
- EPS growth (TTM, YoY)Top 20%
Returns on capital, margins, earnings quality and balance-sheet strength.
- Return on invested capitalBottom 19%
- Cash conversion (OCF / net income)Bottom 14%
- Accruals (lower is better)Bottom 13%
How cheap the shares are relative to earnings, cash flow and their own history.
- Earnings yieldBottom 25%
- Free-cash-flow yieldBottom 18%
- EBITDA / enterprise valueBottom 15%
Strength and persistence of the price trend, including versus the S&P 500.
- 12-month return excluding last monthBottom 46%
- 6-month returnBottom 45%
- 1-year return vs S&P 500Top 48%
- Distance from 52-week highTop 21%
- Trend checklist (0–4)Top 27%
Earnings surprises and analyst sentiment (estimate-revision history is being collected).
Low volatility, shallow drawdowns, low market sensitivity and modest leverage.
- Volatility, 60 days (lower is better)Top 9%
- Maximum drawdown, 3 yearsTop 10%
- Beta vs S&P 500 (lower is better)Top 5%
What changed
Latest four quarters versus the same period a year earlier (growth: versus one quarter earlier).
| Measure | Before | Now | |
|---|---|---|---|
| EPS growth (YoY) | 195.1% | 52.8% | ↓ |
Fundamental momentum
| Measure | Now (TTM) | Year / quarter before | Sector rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EPS growth (TTM, YoY) | 52.8% | 195.1% | ↓ | Top 20% |
| Return on invested capital | -0.7% | — | Bottom 19% |
Quality of earnings and balance sheet
- Cash conversion (OCF / net income)Above 1× means profits are backed by cash.
- -0.16×
- Accruals (net income − OCF) / assetsLower is better; high accruals can signal weaker earnings quality.
- 3.4%
Shareholder returns
- Dividend yield (dividends paid, TTM)
- -1.54%
- Net buyback yield (TTM)
- 0.00%
- Shareholder yield
- -1.54%
- Share count change, 1 year
- +0.0%
Shareholder yield = dividends + net buybacks over the last four quarters, divided by market cap.
Based on the four quarters through Jun 30, 2026 (filed Aug 6, 2026).
Valuation in context
| Multiple | Now | 5-year median | 5-year percentile | Sector rank (cheapness) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P/E (trailing) | 43.9× | — | — | Bottom 25% |
| Free-cash-flow yield | -0.36% | — | — | Bottom 18% |
| Earnings yield | 2.28% | — | — | Bottom 25% |
P/E over the past five years
Range 39.1× – 406.5× since Dec 31, 2024. Each point: price on the filing date divided by trailing-twelve-month EPS known then.
What moved the stock over the past year
- Price return, 1 year
- +6.1%
- Earnings per share growth (TTM)
- +52.8%
- Change in P/E multiple
- -30.6%
Most of the move came from earnings growth.
Technical state
Trend checklist
- ✗ Price above 20-day average
- ✓ Price above 50-day average
- ✓ Price above 200-day average
- ✓ 50-day average above 200-day
- ✗ MACD histogram positive
Trend quality
- Days above the 50-day average
- 271
- Days above the 200-day average
- 264
- 50-day average slope (20 days)
- +0.5%
- 200-day average slope (20 days)
- +0.5%
- Distance from 50-day average
- +0.2%
- Distance from 200-day average
- +2.4%
- RSI (14)
- 52.3
- Relative volume
- 0.10×
Risk and drawdowns
- Volatility, 60 days (annualized)
- 2.1%
- Volatility vs own 5-year history
- 26th percentile · Normal for this stock
- Beta vs S&P 500 (2 years, weekly)
- -0.01
- Correlation with S&P 500
- -0.05
- Current drawdown from 1-year high
- -0.5%
- Maximum drawdown, 3 years
- -1.8%
Financial statements
- Market cap
- $117.1M
- P/E (TTM)
- 43.9
- EPS, diluted (TTM)
- $0.25
- Revenue (TTM)
- $0
- 52-week range
- $10.35 – $11.48
| FY 2024 | FY 2025 | |
|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $0 | $0 |
| Gross profit | $0 | $0 |
| Operating income | -$332 | -$595,545 |
| Net income | $356 | $3.0M |
| EPS (diluted) | $0.02 | $0.27 |
| Q3 2024 | Q4 2024 | Q1 2025 | Q2 2025 | Q3 2025 | Q4 2025 | Q1 2026 | Q2 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Net income | -$315 | $687 | $731,257 | $778,024 | $806,989 | $665,772 | $699,872 | $567,766 |
| EPS (diluted) | -$0.03 | $0.05 | $0.07 | $0.07 | $0.07 | $0.06 | $0.06 | $0.05 |
| FY 2024 | FY 2025 | |
|---|---|---|
| Operating cash flow | -$228 | -$543,165 |
| Capital expenditure | $0 | $0 |
| Free cash flow | -$228 | -$543,165 |
| Dividends paid | $0 | $0 |
| Net share buybacks | $86.1M | $0 |
Cash outflows are shown as negative numbers.
- Cash and short-term investments
- $7,194
- Total assets
- $91.9M
- Total liabilities
- $3.1M
- Total debt
- $1.2M
- Net debt
- $1.2M
- Shareholders’ equity
- $88.8M
As of Jun 30, 2026 (filed Aug 6, 2026).
Short interest
- Shares sold short
- 4,491
- Days to cover
- 1.00
- Change vs previous report
- -31.2%
FINRA short interest, settlement date Sep 15, 2026.